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A Review on Road Safety and Causes of Accidents on Tasgaon-Sangli Road
A.K. Patil1, M.Y. Patil2, S. R. Phadatare3, P. A. Kadam4, A.V. Pawar5
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Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, NMCE Peth (Maharashtra)
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ABSTRACT:- The India is a fastest growing and developing
country in the world. In India and other countries road
accidents are one of the causes of death. In India more than
150000 peoples are killed each year in traffic accidents
which is big concern. This is due to the lack of awareness
among the peoples about the road safety devices which is
installed above or on the road for the safety of road users
like pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclist. Road safety
accidents are human tragedy. The current status of Road
safety research does not give solutions to the problem. It
requires advanced methodologies and resolutions in each
country. This study provides degree and various proportions
of road accidents and the road safety management.
about traffic rules is very slack when it comes to India, but
that should be kept in mind when remarkable fines or
penalties for breaking the law.
2. METHODOLOGY:
Keywords:
Road safety, Methodology, Causes of
accidents and suggestion
The various information related to this review is
collected from various research papers and manual related
to the road safety and management. The statistical data
collected from the manual of ROAD SAFETY IN INDIA
STATUS: REPORT 2016. For the review paper we have take
a case study of the Tasgaon-Sangli road. The no of road
accidents happens on this road in year 2016 is about 803
from which 376 were dead and 791 were injured. The
information also collected by observations. The most of the
accidents happens due to high speedy vehicles.
1. INTRODUCTION:
The objective of the review paper is:
Road traffic injuries are the one of the major
problem in the country. This is due to increasing no of
vehicles per day and increasing traffic volume on roads
especially on the rural roads. According to the safety status
report 2016, 150,785 persons were killed and 494,624
injured in road traffic crashes in India.
The drivers in India takes the traffic rules easily and
handle it carelessly. Due to which road accidents are
happened. Road traffic crashes or injuries are maximum
among the age group of 10-44 years.
Road safety in India should be established the
greatest importance because youngsters are pampering in
habits like drunk driving or driving under effect of various
drugs. Such actions can not only danger to the lives of the
people in the car or on motorcycle, but also to the innocent
people who are walking or driving on the same road.
By suitable traffic management the accident rate
can be reduced. For this a suitable study of traffic accidents
are required to be carried out. Proper control measures
can also be identified by proper investigation.
It is important to notice traffic laws in India due
to the many pedestrians on the roads and the fact that
most of India’s population prefers to walk or take the
public transport services like buses or taxis. The approach
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1) To study the causes of road accidents.
2) To study the factors which is responsible for the
road affections.
3) To study the solutions needed for reducing
accidents.
3. CAUSES OF ACCIDENTS:
Road accident is most undesirable thing happen to
a road users or pedestrians. Most of the road users are
familiar of the general rules and safety measures while
using roads but they have carelessness which cause
accidents. Main cause of accidents and crashes are human
errors which occurs either by proper intension or without
proper intension. We have some of the common behavior
of humans which are reasons for accident:
1. Over Speed of the vehicles with breaking the speed
limit.
2. Driving of vehicles by drinking alcohols.
3. Carelessness while driving.
4. Breaking of Red Light signals.
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5. Avoiding Safety equipment like Seat belts and
Helmets.
6. Overtaking of vehicles in a wrong direction.
3.1 DIFFERENT
ACCIDENTS:
FACTORS
RESPONSIBLE
FOR
Driver’s behavior:
Over-speeding, rash driving, violation of rules,
failure to understand signs, fatigue, alcohol.
Pedestrian behavior:
Carelessness, illiteracy, crossing at wrong places
moving on carriageway, Jaywalkers.
Passenger behavior:
Projecting their body outside vehicle, by talking to
drivers, alighting and boarding vehicle from wrong side
travelling on footboards, catching a running bus etc.
Vehicles situation:
Failure of brakes or steering, tyre burst,
insufficient headlights, overloading, projecting loads.
Figure 1A truck ferrying labourers overturned near
TASGAON in Sangli, dead 10 and injuring 20 others in this
accident.
Road Conditions:
Potholes, damaged road, eroded road merging of
rural roads with highways, diversions, illegal speed
breakers.
3.2 RESULT OF ACCIDENTS:
1. Death
2. Injury
3. Property Damage
Figure 2 Accident happens on Tasgaon-Sangli Road due to
the speedy driving.
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5.
Table 3: Accident information of Sangli district
YEAR
ACCIDENT
DEATH
INJURED
2010
983
282
957
2011
873
278
926
2012
845
314
849
2013
832
325
971
2014
873
321
946
2015
913
330
823
2016
803
376
791
6.
7.
“Road Traffic Accidents in India: Issues and
Challenges” Sanjay Kumar Singh- Professor of
Economics at the Indian Institute of Management
Lucknow, India.
Aparna Verma, Ashutosh Gupta and Baikunth Nath
dept of civil engg. Gorakhpur (UP) “Road safety
improvement in India”.
Head,
Department
of
Economics,
Bharati
Vidyapeeth’s Dr.Patangrao Kadam Collage, Sangli,
Maharashtra. “Road accident causes in Sangli
District”.
SUGGESTIONS:
Don’t drink and drive.
Use seat belt and helmet while driving.
Follow rules and regulations while driving.
Drive vehicles within speed limits.
Be safe and Make safe.
CONCLUSION:
Road accidents happen on Sangli-Tasgaon
road due to illiteracy about sign boards. So it is
concluded that training programs and camps should be
conducted frequently. It is highly recommended that
videos in local language are produced and displayed at
crowdie areas like bus stand, railway station, bank,
schools and colleges etc. Traffic control devices can also
be played an important role in reducing accident. Proper
placement and maintenance of the road safety devices
can reduces the death rate by accidents. Lots of peoples
are aware of the causes of road accidents and its effect
but instead of that they are not follow the rules and
regulations.
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Michael J. Flanagan- the University of Michigan
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Manual of advancing road safety in India by National
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